Link to the Turning Point Academy Education Summit 2025
https://www.turningpointed.com/edsummit
Before his death, I had just finished watching the latest Turning Point USA Education Summit 2025. All the speakers were exceptional. This is delayed but I still want to post all that I learned from TPAcademy. I still have more posts based on Charlie Kirk’s podcasts that I had in my “watch later.” So more to come.
What is taught in sex education units does matter. When kids are told the bodies they were born with are wrong and the educator tells them there is a spectrum to choose from is a lie. Biology has proven the difference between the XX and XY chromosomes. Then the push to bow down to the rainbow flag in the face of denying that there is a creator then our kids are being indoctrinated. Dr. Christopher Yuan shares his own transformation. He is very open about his life as a gay man. He really does a great job of explaining disillusions of sexuality. Pointing to God’s truth to counter this very dangerous ideology that is influencing young minds in our schools today.
Sexuality is not your identity:
-not allowing my desire define who I am
-my sexuality should not be the core of who I am
-God loves us unconditionally but as humans we want to add to God’s truth so therefore God doesn’t want me to change
-today god loves me just the way I am so leave me alone
-unconditional love is not the same thing as unconditional approval of our behavior
-my identity must not be defined by my sexuality
-my identity should not be defined by sexual desires
-my identity is not gay or heterosexual
-my identity must be in Jesus Christ alone
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11).
***secular Freudian framework-God doesn’t call me to be heterosexual or God doesn’t call me to be homosexual
God goes further as He calls me to be holy
Be holy because I am Holy:
“I am the Lord your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground. I am the Lord, who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy” (Leviticus 11:44-45).
“In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials” (1 Peter 1:6)
-the opposite of homosexuality is not heterosexuality, not precise enough. The opposite is holiness
-do not focus on temptation or struggling because change is not the absence of temptations, but the spirit’s ability to stay/be holy; in spite of or in midst of temptation
Transformational Learning: Educating minds, hearts, and souls
-we are teaching gay and trans content to kids today-mandated by education/state/legislation
******who am I must be answered first before all else
-today kids are answering this question with I am gay or I am trans
-this answer is not trivial quibbling over words
Words matter-why?
-truth statements are the living word is Jesus
-words are consequential because they affect thoughts and choices
-relationships are all shaped and built into this question of who we are
-who we are (essence)
-impacts how we live (ethics)
-how we live impacts who we are (how we view who we are)
-if you have a flawed view of who we are then you have a flawed personal ethic
-a flawed view of ethic then you have flawed view of how you view who we are
-if you identify as gay the whole world is gay
-you tend to only interact with other gays as they affirmed that I am gay
-gay is just means same attractions
-verb before gay + being gay=personhood(not doing gay or feeling gay)
-we make that mistake of having deep philosophical theological misunderstanding
-it is a faulty presupposition- that distorts who we are
Simple behavior:
***you can call out the behavior but they don’t view it as a behavior but identifies as who I am
-without Christ I can’t hate my sin without hating myself as who I am (self-hatred)
-with Jesus I can hate the sin without hating myself (Christ-loved)
-we transition from what to who
Being gay is no longer what I am attracted to, what I desire, or what I do-it’s who I am (personhood)
-I am depressed-is it who you are-so embrace it
-I didn’t choose this-it is who I am
-I prayed and God didn’t take it away-God made me this way
-desire is never who you are
-behavior is never who you are-gossiper-what he does so stop it
-sexuality becomes who we are-we don’t tell them to stop it
Transforming the way we teach our kids
Sexuality and gender ideology should not be who we are, but not how we feel
***we put sexuality in the wrong category of: experiences, feelings, desires, essence and personhood
-it should be in the category of desires
-desires turn into personhood
-experiences turn into essence
-gay, straight, or bisexual should never be used to describe people but our desires
-desire is not a person
-desire is not who you are-but how you feel
-we cannot properly understand human sexuality unless we begin with theological anthropology
-we must use the correct perspective of humanity
Example
So God(subject) created(verb) man(noun) in his own image(object of the prepositional phrase), in image of God(prep phrase) he(subject) created(verb) him(object); male(noun) and female(noun) he created them(object).
Parallelism-correlation
Just as being made in God’s image is essential, spiritual, and eternal, so too being made male or female is essential, spiritual, and eternal
Personhood:
-we focus so much on the biological and stop there but it is the whole personhood that was created
-rebukes the arrogant condemnation (those gay people are ruining society, but it is the sin that is ruining society-they are not our enemies and even if they were you are to love your enemies)
-avoids a common, incorrect diagnosis (root cause of gays is childhood trauma)
-trauma had a bad influence on us but influence is not a cause not made you a sinner
-problems as an adult are rooted in your childhood
-these correlations are not in the Bible but rooted in Freud
-is the root cause of your sin? Your mom?
-The root cause of sin is not to place blame but must look all the way back to the fall in the garden
-it was the fall that is guilty, but the answer to sin is Jesus
-perfect parenting doesn’t provide perfect children
-we must affirm repentance when we reject sinful acts and desires
Churches:
-Must not buy into the gay Christian movement in churches
-Must not buy into the lie of I’m gay but I’m a celebrate gay Christians
-these compromises are confusing our kids
-Do not preach its okay to be gay as long as you do not act on it
-repentance is not just acting or not acting on something
-the Bible didn’t teach that it was okay for David to lustfully look at Bathsheba but just don’t act on it and you will be okay
-the Bible teaches that even if you look upon a woman lustfully it is sin
-fake repentance doesn’t count
-we must break the bondage that has a hold on our hearts and minds to overcome the actions played out in our hearts and minds
-we need to identify with life not death
Answer the question of if you were born gay?
No, gay is not genetic
-no need to defend the Bible
-science addresses the gay question
The answer to the born gay question cont..
-The message to the whole world is you need to be a new creation so however you think you were born you must be born again!
-Jesus states that one must be born "of water and the Spirit" to enter the kingdom of God, and contrasts this with the "birth of the flesh".
“Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again,” (John 3:3)
“For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God” ( 1 Peter 1:23).
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
-If you think you are born gay then repent of your sin and and as Christ died for you then you too can be born again